Year 1 Curriculum Information Our Year One Team

Year 1 Curriculum Information

Our Year One Team Miss Densham – Class Teacher Mrs Evans – Teaching Assistant Mrs Ramsey – Teaching Assistant Miss Cartwright – Teaching Assistant Mrs Clarke – Teaching Assistant Miss Sullivan – PE Teacher Mr Huxley – PE Coach

What are themes in Year One? Term Term One – Minibeasts Two – Victorians Three – Polar Regions Four – Castles and Knights Five – Africa Six - Dinosaurs

English Writing Children have opportunities for different types of writing daily at school. Key Focuses: • Correct letter formation, starting letters on the line. • Talk for Writing. • Good grammar (checking that their writing makes sense). • Punctuation (capital letter, full stop, question mark and exclamation mark) • Making phonically plausible attempts at spelling. • Spelling words with prefixes and suffixes (-s, -ed, -ing, -er, -est, un-)

Reading: Children have opportunity to explore a variety of texts during class sessions and daily Guided Reading. Key Focuses Phonics: Blending longer words Alternative graphemes Suffixes (–s, –es, –ing, –ed, –er and –est) Comprehension: Make predictions Retell events Discuss characters and feelings Recognise repetitive phrases

Phonics • Daily sessions using the Read Write Inc programme. • We continue to learn the Green Words (those words which can be sounded out) and Red Words (those words which cannot be sounded out correctly). • Children will learn alternative graphemes for the same sound i. e ay, ai, a_e or ee, ea, e_e, ey, e.

Maths Children will have opportunities to continue to explore and learn practically using a variety of mathematical apparatus. They will experience a variety of problem solving activities to apply their knowledge. Throughout the year, the children will be taught 7 areas of Maths: • Number and Place Value • Addition and Subtraction • Multiplication and Division • Fractions • Measurement • Geometry • Position and Direction

Worship Christian worship happens daily in school with class worships related to our values and our weekly themes based around bible stories. Each Wednesday we are able to link up with the St. George’s Church team who lead worship for us on You. Tube.

Values Our values in school this year are: Autumn term 1 – Friendship Autumn term 2 – Generosity Spring term 1 – Thankfulness Spring term 2 – Forgiveness Summer term 1 – Respect Summer term 2 –Courage Please read our ‘values’ supporting leaflet found online and try some of the activities.

The Phonics Screening Check The Year 1 Phonics Screening will take place during the week 7 th – 11 th June. It is designed to give teachers and parents information on how your child is progressing in phonics.

What will it check? It will check that your child can: • Sound out and blend graphemes in order to read simple words. • Read phonically decodable one-syllable and two-syllable words, e. g. cat, sand, dentist. • Read a selection of nonsense words which are referred to as pseudo words. • Children will know these as ‘Alien Words’ e. g. brip, snorb.

Phonics Screening

What can you do to help your child? • Reading to your child and listening to your child read every night. • Continue to learn green and red words. • Use numbers where possible, counting out objects, counting in groups, ordering numbers. • Use Maths in everyday situations, ask your child to tell you the time, what will it be in one hours time? • Encourage your child to be involved with money when shopping, using the right amount of coins.

Homework We will use the online learning platform Purple Mash for all homework. Year 1 and 2 Purple Mash Activities: Reading Activity Spellings English, Maths or a creative homework will be set on a 3 week rotation Spellings: All children from Years 1 – 6 will receive a list of spellings each week on Purple Mash with a quiz to complete. There will be a test in school during the last week of term that tests a selection of words from across the term.

The first set of homework will be uploaded onto Purple Mash during the week commencing Monday 28 th September. Year One set on Tuesday due in on Monday

Useful Information • PE – This is on Wednesday and Friday. • Please ensure that children come dressed in their PE kits on these days and that hair is tied back and all earrings removed. • Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. This will take place in Term One.

Coronavirus Information Please help us by encouraging your child to: - Wash their hands regularly (particularly before they leave home for school). - Come to school with a full water bottle (this reduces how many times they need to fill up in school). - Go to the toilet before they leave the house in the morning (this means less children using the toilet when they arrive in school). - Catch it, bin it, kill it (and wash their hands afterwards). - Not to touch, hug or make physical contact with other children or adults (unless in a medical situation). - Not to bring items into school from home (other than necessary items eg lunch boxes, PE footwear etc). We thank you all for your help and support with this.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact the school office when necessary. I look forward to an exciting year ahead!